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The Future of Babies: Artificial Wombs and Pregnant Grandmas
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7-17-2008 11:44 AM
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/080716-baby-techs.html"><P> Artificial wombs and experiments on human embryos grown in the lab will be commonplace and no big deal ethically in 30 years, several scientists predict. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/080716-baby-techs.html"><P> They envision a scenario just like test-tube babies, which shocked us 30 years ago but now are fairly routine and acceptable to most people. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/080716-baby-techs.html"><P> That is one of many predictions about the future of assisted reproduction and other baby-related <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/top10-bizarre-contraceptives.html" linkindex="18" set="yes">medical advances</A> in a special news report, "Making Babies: The Next 30 Years," in the July 16 issue of the journal <EM>Nature</EM>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/080716-baby-techs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Newborns and 100-year-olds alike could have children. <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/061130_frozen_ovaries.html" linkindex="19">Infertility</A> will be eradicated. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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